Some ministers, politicians, and police fled their constituents, while prostitutes and the poor risked their lives to nurse the sick. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than 1. The story that Jeanette Keith uncovered is a profound-and never more relevant-account of how a catastrophe inspired reactions both heroic and cowardly. While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was particularly hard hit: Of the approximately twenty thousand who didn't flee the city, seventeen thousand contracted the fever, and more than five thousand died-the equivalent of a million New Yorkers dying in an epidemic today.Fever Season chronicles the drama in Memphis from the outbreak in August until the disease ran its course in late October. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than eighteen thousand people. 2, 2012 The story of the devastation caused by the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878, which blighted the city for a generation.

While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. English: Reteaching Workbook Grade 5HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a CityJeanette Keith. FEVER SEASON THE STORY OF A TERRIFYING EPIDEMIC AND THE PEOPLE WHO SAVED A CITY by Jeanette Keith RELEASE DATE: Oct. Read Or Download Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City By Jeanette Keith Full Pages. Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City 1st Edition is written by Jeanette Keith and published by Bloomsbury Press.

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